An accident and/or incident occurring to a worker while on the way to or from work, including lunch break, is not within the worker’s course and scope of employment except when such travel is directly connected with the worker’s job duties and is expressly within the employer’s course and scope of employment. This exception will not apply if the worker deviates from a reasonably direct route of travel and/or is not acting in the interests of the employer at the time of the accident or incident that forms the basis for the claim. ONCA 12-76, eff. Oct. 1, 2012.